Helen on February 1st, 2010

Back issues of Home Education Magazine are available individually or in annual sets for the last ten years, from 2000 through 2009, but further back in our 27 year publishing history the available issues start getting a little thinner, and some issues can no longer be ordered. Only single issues are available for 2001, 1999, [...]

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Helen on October 21st, 2009

A story picked up by the the Associated Press yesterday highlights a situation in which homeschooling is referenced, if not being actually done:
EBENSBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Department of Education is investigating whether children in a conservative Amish sect are being educated since their western Pennsylvania school was padlocked in a dispute over the [...]

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Helen on October 5th, 2009

An article titled Home-school vs. Public School for news station KAUZ in Wichita Falls, Texas, opens with this comment from the President and the question it ostensibly raises:
“President Barack Obama sparked controversy earlier this week with the announcement that he believes American kids don’t spend enough time in school. He said by having kids spend [...]

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Helen on September 29th, 2009

Follow-up opinion piece to an Anchorage Daily News article we covered Sept. 14th:
In a sense every child is home-schooled, by Mary Kancewick, Published: September 28th, 2009 07:23 PM
The recent Daily News article about home schooling sets up a dichotomy between “home-school advocates” and “others,” or, as she later characterizes it, between “traditional bricks-and-mortar educators” and [...]

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Helen on September 21st, 2009

As the English government threatens to increase regulation of homeschooling, and as homeschoolers in Alaska find their long-proven homeschooling law questioned by the media, an article at finding Dulcinea, the “Librarian of the Internet”, poses the question: How Much Should Government Regulate Home Schooling?
Governments in Europe and the U.S. have had difficulty finding the right [...]

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Helen on September 15th, 2009

Many homeschool advocates, support group volunteers, and business people who work with homeschooling families have noticed a marked increase this year in media challenges to homeschooling laws, regulations, and long-accepted practices, not only in many parts of the U.S., but around the world in countries where homeschooling is also popular.
This compilation from the American [...]

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